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Genes, Brains, and Human Potential : The Science and Ideology of Intelligence.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231543767
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Genes, Brains, and Human PotentialDDC classification:
  • 153.908
LOC classification:
  • BF431 .R534 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Pinning Down Potential -- 2. Pretend Genes -- 3. Pretend Intelligence -- 4. Real Genes, Real Intelligence -- 5. Intelligent Development -- 6. How the Brain Makes Potential -- 7. A Creative Cognition -- 8. Potential Between Brains: Social Intelligence -- 9. Human Intelligence -- 10. Promoting Potential -- 11. The Problems of Education Are Not Genetic -- 12. Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: A rigorous critique of how science has promoted an ideology of limited intelligence and social inequality-and how to overcome it.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Pinning Down Potential -- 2. Pretend Genes -- 3. Pretend Intelligence -- 4. Real Genes, Real Intelligence -- 5. Intelligent Development -- 6. How the Brain Makes Potential -- 7. A Creative Cognition -- 8. Potential Between Brains: Social Intelligence -- 9. Human Intelligence -- 10. Promoting Potential -- 11. The Problems of Education Are Not Genetic -- 12. Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Index.

A rigorous critique of how science has promoted an ideology of limited intelligence and social inequality-and how to overcome it.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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